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Container Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446

221. Kings MS 306

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Kings MS 306
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IRENE, a tragedy, by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Holograph rough sketch. The play was finished in 1731, but not acted till 1749, when after a run of nine nights it was withdrawn (Dict. Nat. Biogr.). The MS. was given by the author to Bennet Langton, who presented it to the King's Library (ib.). Paper; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

222. Kings MS 307

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Kings MS 307
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IRENE, a tragedy by Dr. S. Johnson. A fair copy of MS. 306. Paper ; ff. 60. Quarto. 91/4 in. x 91/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

223. Kings MS 308

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Kings MS 308
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'CATALOGUE of all the English Plays in Her Royal Highness' [Caroline, Princess of Wales] Library, 1722'; arranged alphabetically. Includes about 700 plays, with a list (f. 1 b) of the collections in which they are printed. No plays in MS. are mentioned. Paper ; ff. 18. Folio. 121/2 in. x 8 in. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

224. Kings MS 309

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Kings MS 309
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'CATALOGUE of [David] Garrick's plays', so described on the back: a list of about 1,300 plays, arranged in alphabetical order. The collection was bequeathed by Garrick to the British Museum, by will dat. 24 Sept. 1778. Paper; ff. 11. Quarto. 9 in. x 71/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

225. Kings MS 310

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Kings MS 310
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'THE LAY-MANS LAMENTACION, vpon the civill death of ye late Laboure[r]s in ye Lords vineyard, carryed on by way of Diologue betwixt ye Proud Prelate and poore Professour' : a satire in verse, apparently referring (f. 5 b) to the Act of Uniformity of 1662. Beg. 'You muses nine, or rather spirits ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

226. Kings MS 311

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Kings MS 311
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SATIRICAL POEM ON James Stuart, the Pretender, with allusions to his marriage (1719) with the Princess Maria Clementina Sobieski. Beg. 'Bright sons of Bacchus, and Apollo'. In thirty-two eight-line stanzas, with explanatory notes in the margins. Imperfect, stanza 32 ending at the foot of f. 4 b,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

227. Kings MS 312

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Kings MS 312
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'HENRY AND EMMA, or the Nut-brown Maid', by Matthew Prior, written in blue and gold by H[enrietta] L[ouisa, wife of Thomas Fermor, Earl of] Pomfret (cr. 1721), for 'Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline' [Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of George II, b. 1713, d. 1757]. On the title-page are five lines b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1722-1732
Extent:
1 item

228. Kings MS 313

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Kings MS 313
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LATIN VERSES by Eton and Westminster scholars in honour of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, when in retirement at Richmond, in 1732, Viz. : (I) 'In literatum Carolinae rusticantis secessum sylvæ Etonenses', 1732. f. 1 ;-(2) 'Solitudo regia a Musis Westmonasteriensibus adumbrata', 1732; accompa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 item

229. Kings MS 314

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Kings MS 314
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'FAME, a vision, humbly inscrib'd to the Queen': a poem in praise of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, when in retirement at Richmond. In rhymed heroic couplets, beg. 'Beneath a spreading shade at ease reclin'd'. Paper; ff. 6. Quarto. 85/8 in. x 73/8 in. A. D. 1732 (? cf. no. 313). On f. 1 b, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732?
Extent:
1 item

230. Kings MS 315

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Kings MS 315
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'EXERCITIA Etonæ habita in solenni Scholarium Electione, quum interesse dignaretur, quâ est erga literatos omnes voluntate, Wilhelmus, maximæ spei Princeps, Cumberlandiæ Dux.' Latin and English pieces in prose and verse declaimed at an election of scholars at Eton in presence of William, Duke ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1734-1736
Extent:
1 item